Slabbiness
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Slabbiness is a noun meaning The quality of being slabby; sliminess, muddiness.
Meaning
The quality of being slabby; sliminess, muddiness.
More Meanings
- The quality of being composed of or resembling slabs.
Example Sentences
1678, John Bunyan, The Pilgrim’s Progress, London: Nath. Ponder, Facsimile reproduction, London: Elliot Stock, 1875, Part 2, p. 183, The Way also was here very wearysom thorow Dirt and Slabbiness.
1895, W. P. Haskett Smith, “Wales” in Climbing in the British Isles, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., “The Arans,” Looking up from the lake the crag, which is a high dependence of Aran Benllyn, shows on the right an almost unrelieved slabbiness at an easy angle, which gives good practice in small footholds.
[…] we took our courage in both hands and started at the first break in the downpour. The valley was choked with mist, and the road in a state of unutterable slabbiness: yet our enterprise was soon rewarded, for the weather had done its worst in the darkness, and the sunshine brought the vapours steaming up out of the meadows and banished them with the clouds across the summits of the hills.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include schlubbiness, sliminess, slumminess, slugginess, sloughiness, sludginess.
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